Winds of War

A Weary Faith

While the city continued to take halting steps toward normalcy, French President Jacques Chirac became the first foreign head of state to tour Ground Zero yesterday as rescue workers failed to locate any survivors for a seventh consecutive day.

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Neighborhood Mourns Its Fallen

Some were on their way home, leaving for the day.

Into the Valley of Death With No Fear

In a spontaneous moment, a firefighter reached into his pocket, pulled out a portable camera and snapped a photo of two comrades trudging forward through white smoke toward the remaining tower.

A First Job and a Full Life

Terence Gazzani was just starting out.

Two Sisters Were Inseparable, Even at Work

They are together in a photograph affixed to a fence in Manhattan's Union Square Park, amid candles and flowers and the photocopied hopes of thousands.

He Counted His Blessings

Hannah Kates is 5 years old and she is trying very hard to find something positive to believe in, knowing that her father was killed in the World Trade Center attack.

THE LOST

'97 Princeton Graduate Planned to Marry in '02...An Easygoing Bond Trader...Colombian Immigrant Didn't Like Retirement...Two Friends Were To Open N.J. Office

He Made Everyone Laugh

There was something in the way Timothy J. Coughlin told a joke that made it clear he was enjoying life.

DNA Only Hope for Closure

As families line up to provide DNA samples to help identify the bodies of loved ones, experts say it's become increasingly clear that many may be forced to find closure in the simple fact that an object retrieved from the Twin Towers debris contains genetic material matching their samples.

Rockaway, Breezy Point Among Hardest Hit

In the past, many who live in Rockaway and Breezy Point believed the middle of September was the perfect time to take advantage of the beaches - still hot enough to enjoy the ocean and sand but without the summer crowds.

Prayer Service at Yankee Stadium

Saying it was too soon for a memorial service, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced yesterday that a prayer service will be conducted Sunday at Yankee Stadium for the thousands killed in last week's attack on the World Trade Center.

CAMPAIGN 2001

Politics a Low Priority in Wake of Disaster

Tuesday's rescheduled primary election is a wild card because of vast uncertainty among candidates over how many people will vote.

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Bill Pushes City Recovery Effort

A bill to create a powerful local commission to oversee the rebuilding of lower Manhattan is expected to move swiftly through the City Council when it is introduced tomorrow at an emergency meeting.

Poet Was Also a Hero in '93 Attack

Eight and a half years ago, in the first terrorist attack on the World

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Diverse Gathering Condemns Bias

A coalition of Muslim, Jewish, Arab and Middle Eastern groups gathered in Manhattan yesterday to mourn lost friends, urge restraint in the government's call for war and voice outrage at a growing backlash of bias attacks since terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center.

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Terror Unites Us, Drives Us Apart

The two men, their eyes wide with fear, stood motionless as a half-dozen police officers surrounded them near the turnstiles of a Queens subway station.

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Ellis Henican: 'I Don't Know the Man'

The evidence is said to be growing. The case seems to be tightening. Federal authorities have pretty much decided: Osama bin Laden's bloody fingerprints are all over last week's terror attacks.

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Dennis Duggan: City's Towers Of Strength

The Towers are gone?

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Confirmed Fatalities

The New York City medical examiner last night released the following names of people confirmed dead in the World Trade Center disaster. These names are in addition to those already reported.

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America's Immigrant About-Face

In the hours it took for terrorists to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the focus of the nation's immigration debate shifted from a monthslong discussion on how to welcome newcomers to the country to a hurried patchwork of measures aimed at strengthening the U.S. borders.

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Prayers To Take Place of Events

LaGuardia Community College's graduation ceremonies tonight have been postponed in favor of a vigil to remember those lost in the World Trade Center disaster.

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They Can't Go Home Again

Pulling suitcases, duffel bags slung over shoulders and plastic garbage sacks knotted around wrists, they arrived with police and National Guard escorts at their sides. They spoke of fleeing a place where the sweetest lavender in the city once grew, where woman and child walked spotless streets with no fear at any hour of the night, where the paint on park benches was always fresh, and the air they breathed was delivered daily from the Hudson River.

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Subway Tunnel 'Long - Term Loss'

The president of the New York City transit system said yesterday that restoring subway services to the area south of the World Trade Center on the 1 and 9 lines anytime soon is highly unlikely and that repairs will be costly.

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Aiding Rest of the City, Too Fire Dept. still answers the call

The man who now runs the Fire Department's day-to-day operations looked nervous yesterday as he explained how he would manage a department split between two tough jobs.

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Co-workers Loved 'Their' Towers

For both James Barbella and Joseph Amatuccio, their jobs went beyond taking care of the World Trade Center. Both men loved the Twin Towers.

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Saving People Was His Passion

As firefighters are praised and mourned for their work during the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, Kenneth Fairben, a volunteer firefighter for 32 years, quietly and painfully says prayers for the emergency medical technicians who also play an important role in the search and recovery effort.